The living failures questions.(spoilers inside.?)

So I just got to the boss and it seems like it'll take awhile to beat. Reading things online some say you can hide by the door opposite of when you come in and you'll not get hit by meteors. Others say you can poison the boss but does that last the whole health bar? Does it have to be renewed and if so how many daggers does it take? And lastly after poisoning some also say that if no initial failures are killed you don't hit phase 2.(no meteors) anyone know if this is true or not? I can't use bolt since I use the chikage and bom so I'm kinda boned there but just curious what other ways will help grease the process.

The meteors don't hit you at all if you hug the door opposite the garden's entrance you came through, a.k.a. the one that doesn't have a fog wall on it.

As for the fight itself, I find it's made more manageable by disengaging the lock and running in a circle around the flower while rolling away from their shit. The idea is to keep as many of them onscreen as possible so you don't get any sneaky things tagging you from behind or the side.

In terms of physical/blood damage, the only way to hit a better resist hole is to use attacks which deal Thrust damage (so experiment with the BoM's transformed quickstep R1s, as well as the charge R2 of the Chikage's first form).

Other than that, pure Blood damage will actually do more than pure Physical; the Failures have less Blood resist than straight Phys (or Blunt, for that matter).

Plus, the Chikage deals Rapid Poison damage in its secondary form... which the Failures are quite weak to- weaker, in fact, than Slow Poison.

With the Meteors, you can just hide behind the big flower in the middle; they always come from one direction, no matter the positions of the individual Failures during the fight. Unfortunately I don't quite recall what the direction is or how to tell that direction; last few times I fought Failures I threw them for a Whirligig.

If you use the Chikage, I recommend a strategy of extreme aggression. They're very weak to blood damage, and they're fairly passive when spawning in one at a time. Just slaughter them as they pop up, and you can get well more than half their bar down before ever having more than 2-3 up at a time.

You do need to quickly assess whether the one you're targeting is ranged or melee. For Melee, you usually need to dodge their initial attack before punishing. For Ranged, you can just lay into them but may need to dodge behind them midway through depending on how much damage you're pushing.

Bloodborne is an Action RPG from renowned Japanese developer FromSoftware, makers of the critically acclaimed Dark Souls series.
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